U.S. Christian Groups Support Muslim Refugees, Ignore Persecuted Christians

--Raymond Ibrahim According to recently released figures from the State Dept., the United States has let in a miniscule number of Christian refugees from Syria -- only 34 -- during the four years since the Islamic State began its campaign of mass slaughter. Put differently, although Christians amount for 10 percent of Syria's population--and so should at least be 10 percent of the refugees accepted into the States--only two percent of those accepted are Christians. This disparity is being ignored by influential U.S. Christian groups. The Church World Service (CWS) and the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops have both called for the resettlement of 100,000 Syrian refugees in the United States next year. Yet advocacy for especially persecuted Christians is lacking among these U.S. Christian organizations. The CWS, for example, does not even mentionthe special plight of Christians on its website's call to help Syrian refugees; it primarily features pictures of Muslims. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops -- which touts itself as the world's largest refugee resettlement organization and even received$80 millionfrom the federal government in 2014 for its Migration Fund -- also oftenfailsto mention Christians in its public advocacy for the resettlement of Syrian refugees.

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